Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Xeon X5680

Core i7-6850K vs Xeon X5680 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5680 performs better than the Core i7-6850K. Despite this, the Core i7-6850K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6850K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5680. Also, the Core i7-6850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5680 outputs less heat than Core i7-6850K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-6850K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5680. The Core i7-6850K also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-6850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.